About Sue Vincent

I am a Yorkshire born painter and writer, living in the south of England. I paint the strange things that come as images in dreams and fantasies and write about life as it happens.

I was raised in a spiritually eclectic family in a landscape where myths and legends were woven into the stones, and have always had an intimate relationship with the inner worlds and the understanding that all paths are but spokes on a wheel, leading ultimately to the same centre. It is not the path that one walks that matters, but how one chooses to walk it.

I have been a student of the Mysteries for most of my life, studying alone for many years before joining the Servants of the Light. In 2012 I joined Steve Tanham as Director of the Silent Eye School of Consciousness, a modern Mystery School that seeks to strip back many of the layers in which esoteric thought has become shrouded and teach students a way to find the inherent magic in living and being.

The School is not a business and is run simply and ethically to cover its own costs, not make a profit. The Silent Eye website has a blog, news and events section. We hold regular workshops and events and an annual weekend residential workshop in Derbyshire… details on the Silent Eye home page.

As a painter, I play in most media and have painted everything from wedding cakes to huge murals. I spent a long time chasing realism, until I found the confidence to paint what I saw in the colours that sing to me.

As a writer, I have always scribbled. Poetry came first, I think, and I was fortunate enough to win the David Burland International Poetry Prize in 2008. In that year also I began writing a column for The Spirit Guides. It was a busy year, as I was teaching online with various esoteric forums and made the acquaintance of Dr G. Michael Vasey. The friendship grew and we released The Mystical Hexagram, recently republished as an extended and updated edition.

In 2013 a writing partnership was born that has proved a joy. Stuart France, now the third in the triad of Directors of the Silent Eye, and I embarked, all unknowing, on an adventure that would take us across the sacred landscape of Albion and which has resulted in the publication of a number of books together, with more to come. We have an enormous amount of fun in our wanderings and wonderings, which may reflect somewhat in the way we write.

In 2009 my eldest son, Nick, was left for dead, stabbed through the brain in an unprovoked attack. Many of the earlier entries here chart his remarkable and near miraculous journey and the fallout the attack had on the family. An event like this changes everything, including one’s outlook. Luckily, for us it changed it for the better and love and laughter thrive.

Apart from that, I have two adult sons, too many books (or not enough….) and a mad dog who also blogs when I let her near the keyboard…

You can contact me via the form on my contact page, where you will also find the principal social media links.

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352 Responses to About Sue Vincent

So lovely to discover your writing today! A mystery school! I had just listened to a Neil Kramer interview this week, where he was talking about the mystery schools that used to be and are no more, and I found myself pondering this loss. I will look forward to catching up on your writing! You words caught my attention immediately – the ring of truth in one’s voice and words is becoming ever more apparent to me.
Marga

Thank you for liking my article “What do you seek?” I’m very glad your son not only survived that attack, but is doing so well. That kind of thing, as well as your car crash when you were 19, either destroy us and our families or make us stronger. It’s good to see that your family has held tightly together.

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog -I can’t tell you how much I loved finding yours in return! I just spent a good half hour reading a million entries of yours -your writing is magical and had me hypnotized! It’s that good! Have a wonderful year and a beautiful life -look forward to reading more of your work in the future, i’m definitely following!
Love, Anna

Sue, thanks for stopping by and thanks for the follow. Seems we both have dogs in common. Look forward to dropping in from time to time to see how your year is going I’ll keep an eye out for a stray dog no matter where I go. Happy New Year!

The curds caught my eye and tastebuds. Living here in the south where there are neither curd tarts, proper parkin nor a decent vanilla slice to be had, I could not have wandered by without stopping to look and whimper longingly a little.:-)

Congrats for discovering your skills and thanks for helping other writers to know each other by your prompts..inspite of all your chaos you are clearing up sky for a shine..you are doing great and keep going on sue Vincent 🤗🤗🤗

Congrats for discovering your skills and thanks for helping other writers to know each other by your prompts..inspite of all your chaos you are clearing up sky for a shine..you are doing great and keep going on sue Vincent 🤗🤗🤗

Just thought I’d leave you a note here to say, how good it was to read what your son Nick wrote and as a lady of poetry and fiction, it is a refreshing change to read something of real value. I have realised in my very short life of blogging that it’s not good for my mind to follow and read too many poets and writers of fiction, because it all starts to feel like rubbish in the end – and some of it is (hope they don’t read this!!) I include some of my own in that too!

You must be a real inspiring lady to have a son who thinks like he does, because we all are inspired by our parents in some form or another, even if we would rather not admit it!

Your response made my son’s day too. I just spoke to him on the phone 🙂
He has mentioned on the odd occasion that the hobbit has had some value to him 😉 The blog here is always true.. unless clearly specified. The journey with my son, if anything, toned down as it would be too much for some, I think.
My poetry varies in quality.. I write it for me and merely inflict it on the rest of the world…*chuckles*
Nick has gone in search of the book you mentioned. He wants to read it… and being able to read again at all is such a joy for him, and for me to see.

Thank you for stopping by my post 🙂 I too am Yorkshire born and living in the south. What a small world it is. Your blog is wonderful. I shall have to continue tomorrow when I can see again (after reading one of your recent posts!)

Wow! .. Simply put … I dont always click back on those whose ‘like’ a blog I post, but I did today. And came across your post on the moors. Tinglies all through me. My ancestors are Cornish. I visited the moors once in this life. I just started to flick through your posts. And smiled when I realised you also write long posts 🙂 I am definitely about to visit your pages and check out your book … There is certainly a drawing (metaphorically) here for me … So VERY glad you liked my post and I followed an instinct to check out your blog 🙂 Brightest Blessings to you and yours 🙂

A Loiner, eh? Ah, my exile is only a temporary glitch.. a couple of decades or so… 🙂 I’ll get home one day. When the time is right 🙂 Meanwhile, I can go back to the moors from time to time.
Hugs back at you, Paulette 🙂

In the spirit of passing it on, I nominated you for The Sunshine Award.
Here’s the excerpt and link:
“Sue Vincent inspires me. She’s the one I read when I’ve woke up on the wrong side of the bed and figure I might need to cheer myself up before interacting with anyone, including the dog.

Yes.. the song of a kindred spirit 🙂 I love that you love the scrapbooking so passionately. And i can very much relate to wishing you could make enough money from it to survive!

My own income is precarious to say the least.. I care for my son, and work on running the school, writing and painting when I can. I too would very much love to be able to make a living out of any of the above 🙂

On the other hand, I feel blessed to be able to do all of the above, so if I end up scrubbing floors to finance it, that’s fine too 🙂

Thank you so much! It’s odd how I got to scrapbooking. I’ve always been into the arts, in one form or another, and this form has really stuck with me. I see other things that I’ve dabbled in, and I can’t find the level of energy that I find when I’m scrapbooking.

My income at the moment is non-existent. Not that I haven’t worked, but I’ve had such a roller-coaster and I’m currently back to trying to find something I can tolerate/enjoy that helps me live my life.

However, I do not wish anything to be different, because it’s all brought me here and I wouldn’t trade it for anything.

A lovely blog. My friend Jane is a great believer in the world of spirit and she was told via a medium that she would inherit money (something she had very little of). She went to see a solicitor, who laughed and told her to look for a will. She did, and she found it was true. It was the help she needed to start a new life, after many years of struggle. Life is not about what we’re given, it’s about what we do with what we’re given.

Hello Sue! My you have an interesting blog here, it could be what I’m looking for – what first attracted my attention are your images from Avebury and Glastonbury – both local to me, I’m in Bristol, with my early home, and my heart, in Somerset. And I’m retired, with a passion for natural beauty and photography, and thoughts trending towards Paganism.

I’ve subscribed to your blog and look forward to much interest. Have a look at my blog if you will – as an artist it may be of interest. Adrian

Hi Sue,
Thanks for stopping by my blog and liking my post about the honey. I hope you’ll find some more interesting stuff there 🙂 I like some of your stuff too. I find a lot of that interesting. I’m sure glad your son is doing so well. That’s amazing! I like your artwork too. Nice shot of Singapore 🙂

Thank you for following Daytripper Sippers, Sue.
That’s quite an amazing, inspiring story – your family overcoming the attack on your son. I admire that strength.
I’m looking forward to reading more of your blog. It’s such a beautiful space you have created and I love your photos. Cheer, CC

Hi Sue, I’ve been following your blog for a while now and your posts really strike me. I love what you’re doing here. Therefore, I have decided to nominate you for the Versatile Blogger Award. Now, I’m not sure if you accept these awards. To be honest, it looks like you might have quite a few awards fly your way, so I won’t be offended if you don’t pass it on etc… but if you do want to, please click on the link -> http://insidethelifeofmoi.wordpress.com/2014/04/04/versatile-blogger-award/ …Oh and congrats! 🙂 Keep up the great blog!

Glad to know I am not the only one with a mad dog 🐶. Thank you so much for the follow Sue, I see you liked the Tamar Otters, a place well worth going. It’s amazing what can happen with disastrous events and, while not easy, I am glad that the final outcome is a positive change. I have learn’t a lot from my own sister’s death, for the better. MM 🍀

Hi Sue, I was just over at BART Station Bard’s blog, and saw you liked her post. What a small world! She and I are in the same OBOD seed group in California. We’re very good friends. Do you also know her in person or happen to stumble on her blog? We’re all connected for sure! 🙂

Sue, we have many sister bloggers in common and I am happy to have discovered yours. You are quite a remarkable person, and i love that you are a painter. One of my best friends is a water colorist who lives in California. I have learned a lot about art from her.

Hi Noelle,
Yes, I found your site through some of those sisters.
I paint, when I can… not so much these days unfortunately as time is too limited, but when I can.It is something I love and learn from every time I pick up a brush.
Nice to meet you, Noelle.

Hi Sue, whenever anyone decides to follow my blog I always go to see their blog. Fortunately, no one, as yet, has ever bolted their doors to their blog, despite this possible intrusion by me. I usually take this to mean, that I can take away whatever I want. What I take away from your blog, is an experienced writer and artist who is still growing. This all suggest to me, that it’s not too late for someone like me to improve. Thank you Sue, for looking in my Attic cluttered as it may be. I am always pleased when I see someone found my writing worth pressing the like button on. I’m even more excited when I notice they decided to roll the dice, and follow my incoherent ramblings, maybe in spite of their inner voice saying something like, “Don’t go there girlfriend” especially if they happen to be a guy. Your bravery has been duly noted, and I will do my best to make you laugh. However, in the event I fail in this attempt, I can’t offer you a money back guarantee, but my blog is not worth much anyway. I am delighted to have you as one of my followers, which is saying something when you consider, I have no idea where this is going.:O)

Wow! What an amazing life so far and cannot imagine the fear and agony y must have gone through when your son was attacked and so seriously injured. Absolutely brilliant that he recovered and I will take a look at your earlier posts to follow the story. Feel uplifted just reading your about.

My son is doing miraculously well.. and I use that term in full. He was not expected to live, let alone recover. It was a bad time, but he wouldn’t now change a thing… he has found an awareness and joy in life that he lacked before. The stubborn Yorkshire genes come in handy 🙂

Yes, true Yorkshire grit is something else! Life can be so very odd, from the darkest moments new directions and paths in life are found that we never knew and which often you would never change. So happy to hear he is so well.

Hi Sue, Just to let you know I have nominated you to take part in the 5 photos – 5 day challenge. Please take a look at https://annikaperry.wordpress.com but no pressure at all as I realise it can be quite a commitment.

Sue, I can only imagine what you went through when your son was attacked. Perhaps I imagine a bit better than most having lost a daughter. They are so interwoven into our lives. Though she has been gone many years, she is always with me.
Now I must take umbrage, there is no such thing as too many books, I keep telling my kids that and they roll their eyes at me, “Yes, mom”.
Thank you for visiting one of my blogs.

I am so sorry to hear that, Léa. I cannot begin to imagine how that feels, to lose a child. The thought of it being possible was more than enough…But Nick has made a remarkable recovery and is now blogging and writing too at nickverron.com
See, I have been telling my sons the same for years too… and books are so good for insulating walls and cutting down on the need to redecorate 😉

I used that name for a long time around the web, Sheila… named, of all things, after one of my dogs… a joyous, disobedient creature with more love in her than most creatures I have know, regardless of the number of legs involved 🙂

I agree on what you had said: “It is not the path that one walks that matters, but how one chooses to walk it.”

Your writings captivated me. Reading through some of your deeper posts has been a wonderful experience for me. I knew, deep down, I’m waking up to the Consciousness of Self your words allowed with such a unique impact upon me.

I became one with nature and nature has become what I would like it to be. It’s to feel like forever in as much as myself gotten caught in the endless trap of sweet surrender. I would be here for as long as what captivates me. But the sight belongs to the heart that feels.

I would be here to greet each day with a smile in my heart and the night, with thanksgiving and prayers. I’m here to give love, to care. I should be here for the best that I can be.

I felt like I was returning to Forever. Forever in a way that days and nights are, indeed, the means that preserve the here and now. The traveler on the road knows where he is heading.

And, like a true pilgrim, the Shrine lies where he can’t see it because he was still far away from his destination. He only feels it in the heart from a distance.

Hi Sue!
Nice blog…and especially easy going and with also short posts!
If you are interested in Switzerland…(where the hell is it?)…please visit my poor blog about this small country seen by a foreigner.
I am following you now!
All the best!

Hi, thank you for coming over 🙂 The bears really got to me. Mind, so did some of the others…
The dog, unfortunately, is a camera hog with the demands of a prima donna since she started getting her own fans. She now owns the sofa and rules me with big brown eyes… 😉

You have an interesting story and a unique voice. Looking forward to getting to know you better. I run a Salon at my web site on Wednesdays (www.HaddonMusings.com). Take a look and see if it might be something you would be interested in participating in.

Hi Andy,
The Servants of the Light is a school in the western Mystery Tradition, whith whom I trained. These days I help run the Silent Eye with two others who trained with SOL.
The simple fact that Nick can write at all is a bit of a miracle after what he has been through. He’s just gearing up for a bit of an adventure at present…which doubtless he will share 🙂

I guess Nicks story changed everyone’s life in your family. Maybe life has a more special meaning for you. I hope to break into fictional writing soon. I need to get the next travelogue out of the way first. Any tips you could give would be awesome.

It did, Andy. Some ‘fell by the wayside’, others drew strength and understanding…and for Nick it pressed a reset button that brought life to life.
I’m enjoying the travelogues… especially the Tibetan leg of the journeys that I have read so far.
I doubt I’m qualified to give any tips on writing fiction…other than listening to your characters who’ll tell you the story anyway 🙂
You would be most welcome to come over for a guest post at any time though…every bit of platform building helps 🙂

Its really nice knowing someone is enjoying the journey. I initially did the YouTube for my family as a super loved relative passed away in June and I wanted to let them all know what I was doing and I was ok. It turned out that I couldnt post anything anywhere due to limited Wifi so I’m having to catch up now. Would love to do a guest post though you’d have to let me know what I would have to do. I promise I’ll be well behaved LOL. Ps R U in Brighton as I used to live down that way > commuted the hellish road to Chichester from Brighton every day blaaaagh!

I’m glad you are writing and uploading… I really am enjoying the journey. 🙂
Guest post info is all on here whenever you feel like it…just drop me an email. https://scvincent.com/guest-posts/
No, I’m in Buckinghamshire these days… which is the deep south to a Yorkshire lass 🙂

Colleen, you have a remarkable story and I adore your artwork. If ever you fancy coming over for a guest post, I’d love to have you…the door is always open. My email is in here: https://scvincent.com/guest-posts/

Hi Sue I have nominated you for Song Challenge (Music That Means Something)
The rules are:
Post a song a day for five consecutive days.
Post what the lyrics mean to you. (Optional)
Post the name of the song and video.
Nominate 1 or 2 bloggers each day of the challenge.
willow xx
Ps no pressure if you don’t want to

Sue, can’t believe I haven’t stumbled across this page before. I appreciate greatly the overview into your life story! I absolutely love this phrase you wrote, “a landscape where myths and legends were woven into the stones”. So grateful our journeys have crossed.

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